Tom Sachs Exhibit

The Ambigo Band has been curious about space travel, and so we took a trip to Yerba Buena Center for the Arts to see Tom Sachs' Space Program: Europa. We noticed how Tom Sachs combines seemingly unrelated objects in his work, and considered ways we might blend science and art in our own Mars habitat here at Brightworks. To share more about our project, and this inspiring trip, Oscar has volunteered to be our guest blogger for the week. Here's what Oscar saw, and some connections he made to what we've been working on at Brightworks.Today was pretty fun (not actually today, by today I mean October 4th), Amber Band went to YBCA to see the Tom Sachs’ exhibit. When we got there Megan told us to find one piece of art that we really liked, and write how the artist (Tom Sachs) combined science with “silliness”.This is a picture of the art piece I wrote about. It is called Mission Control and it was made in 2007, here is the link to the site that I found this picture on. It is a picture of a panel of screens, all showing live feed from cameras in different places in the museum. I don't really know why Tom Sachs made this, but I think that it’s really cool to see what people are doing regularly, and then what they do when they know that they are on camera. A lot of the art that Tom Sachs made was very strange and weird, so on the cameras you got to see how people reacted to the art. At Brightworks we are making a HAB (Habitat) kind of like the one in The Martian. One of the things Megan told us to write about was how the art we chose might have inspired us on a approach to building the HAB. I think that our mission control should look a bit like this, with a bunch of cameras showing live feed on what is happening in the HAB.